2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

Host city	Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada
Nations participating	22[1]
Athletes participating	130
Events	Downhill, Giant slalom, Slalom, Super combined, Super-G
Dates	March 2 - 10
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The 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was an international disability sport alpine skiing event held in Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada from March 2 to 10, 2015. The Championship is held biannually by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the largest event of its type outside the Winter Paralympics.

Skiers competed in sitting, standing or visually impaired classification categories in Downhill, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Super-G, Super Combined and Team events.

Over 130 skiers competed, with Russia finishing the Championship on top of the medal table in both gold medals won and total medals.

Opening ceremony

On March 2, the opening ceremony was held.

Events

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired[2]	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux  Canada	1:29.68	Mark Bathum Guide: Cade Yamamoto  United States	1:31.89	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik  Slovakia	1:32.12
		Standing[3]	Alexey Bugaev  Russia	1:27.60	Matthias Lanzinger  Austria	1:29.71	Alexander Vetrov  Russia	1:31.25
		Sitting[4]	Corey Peters  New Zealand	1:28.06	Roman Rabl  Austria	1:28.80	Taiki Morii  Japan	1:29.26
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired[5]	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii  Russia	1:23.63	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux  Canada	1:24.04	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik  Slovakia	1:24.81
		Standing[6]	Alexey Bugaev  Russia	1:19.88	Matthias Lanzinger  Austria	1:21.55	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	1:21.91
		Sitting[7]	Corey Peters  New Zealand	1:20.41	Frederic Francois  France	1:21.20	Andrew Earl Kurka  United States	1:21.32
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired[8]	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik  Slovakia	1:59.81	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii  Russia	2:01.35	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	2:03.32
		Standing[9]	Alexey Bugaev  Russia	1:54.46	Markus Salcher   Switzerland	1:56.94	Matthias Lanzinger  Austria	1:56.96
		Sitting[10]	Georg Kreiter  Germany	1:56.84	Roman Rabl  Austria	1.57.70	Frederic Francois  France	1:58.39
Giant Slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired[11]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev  Russia	2:09.28	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	2:09.88	Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Macala  Czech Republic	2:11.71
		Standing[12]	Alexey Bugaev  Russia	2:01.19	Markus Salcher   Switzerland	2:02.16	Matthias Lanzinger  Austria	2:04.27
		Sitting[13]	Georg Kreiter  Germany	2:03.49	Corey Peters  New Zealand	2:03.89	Taiki Morii  Japan	2:04.71
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired[14]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev  Russia	1:47.71	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik  Slovakia	1:48.90	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	1:53.05
		Standing[15]	Alexey Bugaev  Russia	1:39.05	Alexander Alyabyev  Russia	1:46.15	Matt Hallat  Canada	1:47.86
		Sitting[16]	Takeshi Suzuki  Japan	1:47.93	Taiki Morii  Japan	1:53.67	Thomas Nolte  Germany	1:55.38

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired[17]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor  Australia	1:45.80	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead  United States	1:46.32	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin  Russia	1:51.57
		Standing[18]	Marie Bochet  France	1:32.81	Andrea Rothfuss  Germany	1:36.83	Mariia Papulova  Russia	1:42.12
		Sitting[19]	Claudia Loesch  Austria	1:33.29	Momoka Muraoka  Japan	1:35.95	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	1:38.06
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired[20]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor  Australia	1:33.52	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead  United States	1:37.55	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin  Russia	1:40.55
		Standing[21]	Marie Bochet  France	1:24.77	Andrea Rothfuss  Germany	1:28.83	Mariia Papulova  Russia	1:33.60
		Sitting[22]	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	1:27.65	N/A		N/A
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired[23]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor  Australia	2:14.18	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin  Russia	2:16.95	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead  United States	2:22.20
		Standing[24]	Marie Bochet  France	2:03.17	Andrea Rothfuss  Germany	2:09.58	Anna Jochemsen  Netherlands	2:12.52
		Sitting[25]	Claudia Loesch  Austria	2:04.79	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	2:06.10	Laurie Stephens  United States	2:17.78
Giant Slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired[26]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin  Russia	2:24.05	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe  Great Britain	2:24.39	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor  Australia	2:25.41
		Standing[27]	Marie Bochet  France	2:11.63	Andrea Rothfuss  Germany	2:14.04	Stephanie Jallen  United States	2:20.49
		Sitting[28]	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	1:09.50	Claudia Loesch  Austria	1:11.38	Momoka Muraoka  Japan	1:15.44
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired[29]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin  Russia	2:03.31	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor  Australia	2:04.50	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe  Great Britain	2:13.81
		Standing[30]	Marie Bochet  France	1:58.67	Mariia Papulova  Russia	2:04.22	Laura Valeanu  Romania	2:09.55
		Sitting[31]	Claudia Loesch  Austria	2:03.28	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	2:03.38	Anna-Lena Forster  Germany	2:04.31

Medals table

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Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	10	4	5	19
2	France	5	1	1	7
3	Germany	4	6	3	13
4	Austria	3	7	2	12
5	Australia	3	1	1	5
6	New Zealand	2	1	0	3
7	Japan	1	2	3	6
8	Slovakia	1	1	2	4
9	Canada	1	1	1	3
10	United States	0	3	4	7
11	Spain	0	1	2	3
12	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
13=	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
13=	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
13=	Romania	0	0	1	0
13=	Switzerland	0	0	1	0
	Total	30	29	29	88

Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 22 nations competed.^[33]

Australia  Austria  Belgium  Canada  Croatia  Czech Republic  France  Greece

Germany  Great Britain  Italy  Japan  Netherlands  New Zealand  Poland  Romania

Russia  Slovakia  Slovenia  Spain   Switzerland  United States

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, depending on their classification of disability.

Standing

• LW2 – single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 – double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 – single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 – double arm amputation
• LW6/8 – single arm amputation
• LW9 – amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Sitting

• LW 10 – paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 – paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 – double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Visually impaired

• B1 – no functional vision
• B2 – up to ca 3–5% functional vision
• B3 – under 10% functional vision

References

1. "2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, Panorama". paralympic.org. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
2. "Results - Men Downhill - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
3. "Results - Men Downhill Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
4. "Results - Men Downhill Sitting". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
5. "Results - Men's Super-G - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
6. "Results - Men's Super-G - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
7. "Results - Men's Super-G - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
8. "Results - Men's Super Combined - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
9. "Results - Men's Super Combined - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
10. "Results - Men's Super Combined - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
11. "Men's Giant Slalom - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
12. "Men's Giant Slalom - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
13. "Men's Giant Slalom - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
14. "Men's Slalom - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
15. "Men's Slalom - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
16. "Men's Slalom - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
17. "Women's Downhill - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
18. "Event Overview - W DH Standing". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
19. "Event Overview - Women's Downhill - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
20. "Event Overview - W SG Visually Impaired". IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
21. "Event Overview - Women's Downhill - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
22. "Event Overview - Women's Downhill - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
23. "Event Overview - Women's Super Combined - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
24. "Event Overview - Women's Super Combined - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
25. "Event Overview - Women's Super Combined - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
26. "Event Overview - Women's Giant Slalom - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
27. "Event Overview - Women's Giant Slalom - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
28. "Event Overview - Women's Giant Slalom - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
29. "Event Overview - Women's Slalom - Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
30. "Event Overview - Women's Slalom - Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
31. "Event Overview - Women's Slalom - Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
32. "Medal Standings as of 16 Mar 2015" (PDF). IPC Athletics. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
33. "NPC list". IPC. Retrieved December 19, 2015.

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

External links

• official site
• IPC Alpine Skiing
  • World Championships – official results
• ParalympicSport.TV